Saxton United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Saxton United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located at the junction of Main and Church Streets in Bowers, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1879, and is a long, narrow, one-story, gable-roofed, Gothic-influenced frame building with board-and-batten siding.”
Wikipedia article Saxton United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Main and Church Sts., Bowers, 19946
When was it listed? July 1990
Category. building
Census division. Milford North
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 90001070 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Saxton United Methodist Church between 2002 and 2015, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2015	Smoking	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SCOTTS FIRE
23 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saxton United Methodist Church: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dover Equip. Co. Dredge No. 7	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	St Jones River Gravel Co Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Kent County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Town Point	2.1 miles	1972
Barratt Hall	3.0 miles	1973
Jehu Reed House	3.1 miles	1973
John Dickinson House	3.2 miles	1966
Logan School House K-834	3.2 miles	1979
Barratt's Chapel	3.8 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001070 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent County	All 136 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.